Where President Trump is under new pressure over the sacking of james comey. The former fbi director will give evidence to senators on thursday about whether he was pressured to drop an inquiry into links between a senior white house official and russia. Ahead of that hearing, Written Testimony has been released from mr comey. In it, he says he believes the President Trump asked him to drop the investigation into general Michael Flynn. Here are the key lines from james comeys statement. Our washington correspondent david willis says mr comeys evidence is eagerly anticipated. They are saying that this could be Bigger Box Office as far as capital hill is concerned and the Clinton Impeachment and indeed, watergate. We had this Opening Statement released on the Senate Intelligence Committee Website revealing, amongst other things, that President Trump called for this pledge of loyalty for the man he later sacked, james comey, and he called for the investigation into Michael Flynn drop. Wha
On down to wharton, they say. We can use every hand. Reporter martin savidge, thank you very much. And thanks to you for joining us. Our breaking News Coverage continues now with ac 360. Houston. A week after Hurricane Harvey came ashore, the reminders that this is not over keep coming and theres a new one that just happened. Explosions and a massive fire at the Chemical Plant 25 miles northeast of houston. It began with flooding, followed by a power outage, and the equipment to keep explosive chemicals cool shut down. Early yesterday morning came the first fire. Late today, a large explosion, followed by the large fire that has thankfully died down again. For obvious reasons, cnns brian todd is not here but joins us with the latest. What do we know exactly about this fire . Reporter we can tell you that officials have told us for
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Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Spent an entire week at one of his golf course. It should not be that hard to find out whose interest the president is serving if own the congressional leaders would say subpoena his tax returns. More likely to support a candidate who promises to be a check on the president. Fresh off another round of encouraging Election Results on tuesday, democrats have a message of their own, they are in the words of nancy pelosi clean up corruption. What does that mean . Cleaning up corruption. How do you do it . We have to make sure that we can get big money out of politics. What we have seen is dark money
risk of not getting kavanaugh confirmed. It is not a matter it is a matter of timing. That sounds like they support in impeaching Rod Rosenstein but not doing it now. The plot which is to go after Rod Rosenstein but allow the senate to jam the Supreme Court justice. Do that work and then return after the midterm elections to try to jam up Rod Rosenstein.
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Legislation that this congress has been pushing forward. The biggest example of it was the corrupt gop tax scam where 83 of the benefits went to the wealthiest 1 . This was not done for the people. Thats what we stand for as democrats. It was done for the lobbyist, the wealthiest, the billionaires. This is corruption happening in plain sight. I would not disagree that is corrupt. But that is every day corruption. That is a system that is shot through with corruption. I dont want to minimize that. We are talking about specific corruption in that this president has a whole host of corrupt relationships to his business and things like that. That my question would, what would they do if they got the majority they are lying, cheating, stealing and doing it with impunity. And the reason is this congress has refused to do constitutional oversight responsibilities. The House Of Representatives doesnt work for donald trump. We work for the American Peopl